Bretton Marc

Vous appelez cela du journalisme. Eux appellent cela avancer sans obstacle contre l’Occident collectif. J’ai appris une chose, ici, au fil des années : ceux qui n’ont jamais connu l’oppression souvent ne savent pas quoi faire de leur liberté. Ils la prennent pour un état naturel. Elle est un effort. La démocratie n’est pas une performance. C’est une exigence. Une vigilance qui ne tolère ni fatigue ni complaisance. La démocratie repose sur une lucidité: elle est fragile et ne survit qu’à la condition d’être défendue avec rigueur. Hier soir, ce n’est pas seulement le journalisme qui a failli. C’est ce réflexe. Et c’est ainsi que l’on commence à perdre sans même s’en rendre compte.

This is truly insane, and it should be front page news across America.  Denmark secretly deployed soldiers to Greenland prepared to blow up airport runways to stop a U.S. invasion. They brought blood supplies to treat the wounded. France, Germany, Norway, and Sweden quietly coordinated against us. This was not a drill. This was our closest allies preparing to fight Americans. Let that sink in. NATO allies. Countries whose soldiers have fought and died alongside ours for decades. They looked at this president and decided they had to prepare for the worst. Fewer allies does not make America great. It makes us more isolated, more vulnerable, and it hands Russia and China exactly what they have always wanted: an America abandoned by its friends. The American people deserve to know how badly this president has damaged our standing in the world.  bbc.com/news/articles/…

@PawlowskiMario Switzerland ordered some Tomahawks years ago. Now the US said they can't deliver them. So Switzerland said then we won't pay. The US have now seized the funds we paid for the F-35s (which we probably won't get as well) instead. srf.ch/news/schweiz/z…

Burka Band était un groupe punk-rock féministe afghan fondé à Kaboul au début des années 2000. Elles jouaient cagoulées sous des burqas, transformant ce symbole d’oppression en acte de résistance. Le plus ironique ? elles ont été recherchées par la police, sans jamais pouvoir être identifiées… à cause de la burqa !

Cet événement avait normalement 0,0001 % de chance de se produire. Après une vague de chaleur historique la semaine dernière, les États-Unis vont encore suffoquer. UN FIL 1/8

Brave journalist Katsiaryna Bakhvalava was arrested after reporting on the 2020 protests and spent 5½ years behind bars in Belarus. Today, she is finally free. But her husband, Ihar Ilyash, remains imprisoned. Every political prisoner must be released.

@NathalieLoiseau Mais très révélateur psychologiquement du caractère sadique du régime trumpiste.

C’est une forme d’argument assez disruptive pour être relevée : « on a fait n’importe quoi, on commence à en payer les conséquences mais nos alliés souffrent plus que nous, alors ça va ». Très très créatif. Et infiniment destructeur.

In 1895, a French social psychologist named Gustave Le Bon published a book so dangerous that it became the private playbook of dictators for the next century. Hitler quoted it. Mussolini kept it by his bedside. Edward Bernays used it to build modern propaganda. The book's name? "The Crowd." Its core claim: The moment people form a group, they become stupid. Not slightly dumber. Fundamentally, structurally incapable of rational thought. And the tactics he described for controlling them still work on you right now. 🧵 (thread)

This is the leader of Europe’s largest economy telling Trump: ‘You didn't ask us, you don't have a plan, and we are no longer following you into the dark.' Chancellor Friedrich Merz: "To this day, there is no convincing concept of how this operation could succeed. Washington did not consult us and deemed European assistance unnecessary. Ladies and gentlemen, we would have advised against pursuing this road the way it has been pursued at present. We do not want, dear colleagues, for this war to become a burden on the transatlantic partnership. We want this partnership, and we need it. That is why we are engaging in dialogue with Washington at all levels. In doing so, we are following what I stated a month ago at the Munich Security Conference: We are seeking transatlantic agreement. Therefore, I have always made it clear: We share important goals with the USA. But we must not, and will not, shy away from honestly telling our partners where we see things differently and where we have different interests. Such a partnership must withstand this, otherwise it is not a partnership, dear colleagues."

Brutal 👊🏻

👉Les déferlements de haine en ligne dont notre candidate Najate Haie est victime pour oser se maintenir face à une liste composée à près d’un tiers de militants de LFi ne nous impressionnent nullement. 👉La gauche républicaine et démocratique que nous incarnons dans cette campagne ne s’abaissera jamais à faire campagne avec une organisation dont le chef fait rire les salles sur les patronymes juifs. Elle ne s’abaissera jamais à faire alliance avec ceux qui refusent de voter les crédits à la défense ukrainienne et européenne. 👉Elle ne s’abaissera jamais à faire front avec une organisation qui tourne en dérision la démocratie, dénonce la laïcité et prépare l’avènement de M. Bardella et des nationalistes dans 1 an. 👉Najate poursuit sa campagne avec tous ses colistiers, toute son équipe, avec droiture, exigence, clarté et a l’écart des reniements honteux. Pour Castelnau, pour la transition écologique, pour une gouvernance apaisée, pour des mobilités repensées, pour les priorités éducatives et à l’écart des haineux courageux qui sévissent en ligne. 👉Le 22 mars, donnez toute votre force à Najate et à Réinventer Castelnau pour changer notre ville!

🇫🇷 A French general just said joining Trump’s coalition is like buying a ticket to dinner and dancing on the Titanic – the evening after it hit the iceberg. That’s not a metaphor. That’s a military assessment. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

Je vous raconte aujourd'hui une histoire d'espoir dans la Tchécoslovaquie d'après-guerre. Bonne lecture ! open.substack.com/pub/annakubist…

Yuri Bezmenov was right. MAGA has become the perfect case study in everything he warned about. The former Soviet defector turned KGB whistleblower laid out a blueprint for what he called "ideological subversion." A long-term, systematic process designed to alter a target population's perception of reality to such an extent that they can no longer make rational, self-defensive decisions, and ultimately participate in their own subjugation. A conquered imagination will build its own cage and defend it with passion. It will offer itself willingly to the very system it believes it is fighting. MAGA has become a pristine example of that process. It began as a vessel for suspicion of power, bureaucracy, and empire. What remains is an unthinking chorus that chants on cue, mouths moving in sync to words they did not write, serving ends they will never taste. Stage One: Demoralization Demoralization begins where a population loses its grip on reality. Lies alone are cheap. They break apart under pressure. Demoralization creates a mind that requires lies in order to function. The lie becomes a form of emotional infrastructure and a prosthetic for identity. Remove it, and the person feels as though he is being stripped of his own world. We are living through a moment where a group of people do not just disagree, they do not even acknowledge a shared fundamental reality. There is no common frame of reference, no mutual set of facts from which discourse can even begin. They can be shown, in real time, the unraveling of their worldview, and they will patch over the holes with fantasy rather than face the anxiety of revision. Contradiction no longer wounds the narrative. It gets absorbed, metabolized, and reissued as proof of the narrative's strength. Demoralization destroys the ordinary relationship between belief and evidence. They will sanctify the narrative precisely because it has become impossible to defend by ordinary reasoning. The more absurd the claim, the more intense the loyalty required to sustain it. The absurdity becomes a test of belonging. Trump built his appeal on opposition to the very order he has become. He rose by presenting himself as the enemy of the ruling apparatus and now governs as just another custodian of that same machinery. Every reversal, betrayal, and contradiction is absorbed and excused. Nothing breaks the spell, because the spell depends only on identification. The lie only needs to remain emotionally necessary. Most people cannot bear the thought that they have wasted years in service to a fraud. They cannot tolerate the possibility that their emotional investments, friendships, rituals, humiliations, and hostilities were built around a con. The ego protects itself. Relentlessly. It retroactively justifies the allegiance. The person stops thinking in order to preserve the image of himself as someone who never needed to think. That is why demoralization is so adhesive. It fuses political loyalty to a deep-seated sense of self-preservation. A society cannot remain healthy under these conditions. Stage Two: Destabilization Once a population can no longer think clearly, it can be herded through crisis after crisis, each one burning attention, exhausting energy, and preventing any sustained confrontation with structural power. The target becomes reactive. It lives from panic to panic. It does not build, organize, or discipline itself toward durable objectives. It flails. MAGA has been locked into a permanent crisis cycle for years. Its energy is fed into outrage that never touches the machinery governing its life. Each wave of panic is selected for emotional charge and strategic uselessness. Culture war stimuli keep the base in motion while surveillance grows, corporate concentration deepens, government overreach hardens, and the institutional architecture of control remains untouched. The movement is kept angry enough to remain engaged and scattered enough to remain harmless. A population can be pacified by despair. It can also be pacified by a constant promise that someone else is handling everything. "Trust the plan" they say. Justice is always around the corner. The revelation is imminent. The arrests are coming. The hidden war is being won in silence. The faithful are asked to wait, watch, believe, and hold the line. That formula converts political energy into passivity. The result is paralysis. Destabilization also works by degrading the sense of proportion. Proximate irritants are made to feel civilizational. Meanwhile the actual architecture of dependence remains unexamined. People exhaust themselves hunting phantoms while the systems shaping their material and civic lives continue to consolidate. The movement becomes easier to steer because it has lost the ability to rank threats. Everything is urgent and the calendar fills with outrage. What makes MAGA especially tragic is that it once contained people who could have resisted this trap. It contained dissidents, skeptics, anti-establishment instincts, and a genuine hostility to centralization. Those impulses have been metabolized by the machine they were supposed to challenge. The people who might have torn at the apparatus are now subdued, then mobilized on its behalf. There is something especially grotesque about the object of this devotion. A person might at least understand the seduction of a great disciplined empire. MAGA never offers even that. It offers the cheapest carnival of corruption imaginable, an administration packed with greed, vanity, opportunism, incompetence, patronage, and self-service. Promises unravel almost as soon as they are spoken. The spectacle barely bothers with disguise. The followers drink it as if it is salvation anyway. Stage Three: Crisis The crisis phase in Bezmenov's schema concerns a society worn down enough to demand deliverance. The public does not ask for liberty under those conditions. It asks for relief, order, revenge, reassurance, certainty, and someone who appears large enough to absorb its fear. Trump has always fit that role. He functions as a pressure-release valve for populist rage. He gathers anti-establishment energy, gives it a face, dramatizes its grievances, then routes it back into the same structure that generated those grievances in the first place. That is a magnificent service to the system. The movement believed it was backing a destroyer of entrenched power. It instead received a broker of that power. The Deep State, war machine, surveillance apparatus, mass financial manipulation, all of these remain. In several respects these structures have grown even stronger. The architecture was preserved because preservation was always the function. What remains of MAGA now resembles a congregation of political ventriloquism. The individual vanishes. The script speaks through him. He mouths phrases that did not arise from his own judgment. He absorbs humiliations that would once have provoked disgust. He dedicates years of his finite life to protecting a leader who regards him as expendable, a donor class that sees him as inventory, and grifting opportunists feeding on his loyalty. He experiences that degradation as purpose. There is a special misery in watching people hand their lives away so cheaply. Human beings receive only a narrow stretch of years. They could use them to think, create, love, build, and govern themselves. Instead they turn themselves into instruments for a slogan and become placeholders for a collective impulse. They should feel shame, a severe and clarifying shame, because they are consenting to their own diminishment. Yet shame requires enough independence to recognize the fall. Many no longer possess that reserve. Stage Four: Normalization Years of contradiction, panic, excuse, humiliation, and managed outrage dull the senses. There is no rebellion, only obedience, conformity, devotion to hierarchy, and utter submission. The machine rolls on, and the crowd cheers. Around it, the abnormal becomes routine. Conduct that once would have triggered scandal now barely interrupts the cycle. Public figures lie without craft, humiliate themselves without consequence, contradict themselves in broad daylight, and still move through the culture with an aura of legitimacy. The shameless becomes expected. The wider public learns to witness absurdity without resistance, then to accommodate it, then to speak as though it had always been there. A society's nervous system gets trained to stop recoiling. The final victory of ideological subversion does not require everyone to love the system. Resentment, fury, distrust, and even acquiescence can all be captured, directed, and fed back into the same arrangement so long as the subverted never recover themselves. The captured person is severed from his own judgment and handed back to himself as a member of a managed mass. He still feels intense, righteous, and awake. Yet his interior life has been entirely annexed. MAGA has made the process visible in almost unbearable detail. The people who imagined themselves the last defense against collectivist capture have become its most complete expression. This is the endgame. What comes next is a country hollowed into a ritual corpse, still draped in its symbols while power feeds openly on the wreckage. Once subversion is complete, collapse becomes the atmosphere itself.

Je n’avais jamais vu Persepolis, le film qui fait trembler l’extrême-gauche & les islamistes. Je l’ai regardé hier soir, et visiblement… ses détracteurs ne l’ont jamais visionné. 1️⃣ « Sé l’histoir d’1 famille bourgeoise pro-Shah » C’est tout l’inverse. L’héroïne… (1/6)

NEW: A classified report by the National Intelligence Council, representing the collective wisdom of America's 18 intelligence agencies, found that even a large-scale assault on Iran would be unlikely to oust its entrenched military and clerical establishment 🧵

La conseillère spirituelle personnelle de Trump, l'évangéliste Paula White qui a prié avec lui hier à la Maison Blanche, a déclaré : « Dire non à Trump, c'est dire non à Dieu » Tout va bien chez les frappadingues.

Quand la France invente la ségrégation extrême, financée par l'argent public: la part des enfants de 6e scolarisés dans le privé atteint 39% à Paris en 2025, avec des écarts hallucinants entre classes sociales lemonde.fr/societe/articl… ipp.eu/wp-content/upl…

"Une vaste étude confirme que la vaccination contre la COVID-19 n'a aucun impact sur la fertilité ni sur le taux de fausses couches. Des chercheurs de l'Université de Linköping, en Suède, ont récemment mené une analyse approfondie des données des registres de santé afin de répondre aux inquiétudes persistantes concernant les vaccins à ARNm et la santé reproductive. L'étude, publiée dans la revue Communications Medicine, a suivi près de 60 000 femmes en âge de procréer afin de comparer les issues de grossesse entre les femmes vaccinées et non vaccinées. Les résultats sont sans équivoque : les taux de naissances et de fausses couches sont restés similaires dans les deux groupes, ce qui ne prouve en rien que les vaccins interfèrent avec la capacité de concevoir ou de mener une grossesse à terme en toute sécurité. Ces résultats viennent étayer un ensemble solide de données internationales qui contredisent les rumeurs qui circulaient au début de la pandémie concernant la santé placentaire et la fertilité. Le professeur Toomas Timpka, auteur principal de l'étude, a souligné qu'il est très improbable que la vaccination ait contribué aux fluctuations des taux de natalité observées dans le monde entier pendant la pandémie. Pour les personnes qui envisagent de fonder une famille ou qui sont actuellement enceintes, ces données à grande échelle sont rassurantes et confirment que la vaccination contre la COVID-19 est un choix sûr qui ne compromet ni leurs projets de reproduction ni la sécurité des nouveau-nés."

« On me reproche dans certains cercles communautaires d’avoir dit que j’avais honte. J’ai pas honte d’Israël, j’aime Israël, Israël c’est ma vie, mon héritage et c’est l’une de mes passions. Mais simplement Israël est un pays déchiré entre les héritiers de Rabin et les disciples de son assassin. Et certains disciples de son assassin sont aujourd’hui au pouvoir. Ce qui est pour moi une très grande douleur. Pour certains 70.000 morts c’est pas assez. Comment voulez-vous réagir à des propos pareils sinon par un sentiment de dégoût et de honte. Comment peut-on être juif et proférer des horreurs pareilles ? » : Alain Finkielkraut auteur de « Le cœur lourd » (@Gallimard) #LEDLR @RadioJFrance